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Beanstack Reading Challenges

Participate in our monthly reading challenges by logging your reading on Beanstack online or the Beanstack app to earn badges. Read 10 hours and earn a Beardie Buck good for $1 toward the purchase of a Friends Book Sale item. Open to all ages!

beanstack reading program

Online

  1. Open Beanstack onlineBeanstack Homepage
  2. Select Sign In.
  3. Select Reader.
    Change Readers
  4. Verify Reader information.
  5. Select Challenge to register.
  1. Open Beanstack online.Beanstack Homepage
  2. Select Register an Individual or Family
  3. Follow the prompts to create your account and add readers.
  4. Select Challenge to register. 
  1. Click the Log Reading and Activities button in the upper lefthand corner of the screen.
  2. Select the reader you are logging for and what you are logging—reading or activity. 
    Log Reading
  3. A popup will appear if the reader has earned a ticket. 
    Ticket Earned
  4. See Ticket Drawings. 
  1. Select Enter a Drawing on the logging popup or select Ticket Drawings after opening the challenge the selected reader is participating in. 
  2. Choose an item from the Ticket Drawings.
    Assign tickets
  3. Select Add/Remove Tickets and + or – to change the tickets deposited toward that prize.
  4. All tickets must be assigned to a drawing by the end of the day August 6.

App

  1. Open the Beanstack app.
  2. Log in with your username and password. 
    Beanstack App dashboard
  3. Select the circle in the top right corner to toggle between reader profiles.
  4. Register for or view a reader’s challenge by selecting Discover Beanstack discover challengesat the bottom of the screen and selecting the challenge.
  1. Download the Beanstack Tracker app from Google Play or the App Store. 
  2. Open the app and select Let’s Go and then At my library, school, or bookstore.
  3. Search and select Oconomowoc Public Library. 
  4. Select the Sign up! at the bottom of the screen.
  5. Follow the prompts to create your account and add readers.Beanstack App main screen
  6. Select the circle in the top right corner to toggle between reader profiles.
  7. Register for or view a reader’s challenge by selecting Discover Beanstack discover challengesat the bottom of the screen and selecting the challenge.
  1. Select the plus sign Beanstack Log to log your reading and activities. 
  2. Select the Reading button to log time spent reading.
  3. Select the Activity button to log completed activities. 
  4. If you have more than one reader in your account, you will be prompted to choose the reader you are logging for.
  1. A notification shows when a badge is earned and the number of tickets earned. 
  2. Select TicketsBeanstack app tickets.
  3.  

Beanstack Tandem

Link your school and library Beanstack profiles so logged reading counts at the library too.  Don’t have a library Beanstack account? Automatically create one! 

  1. Sign in to your school account on a computer (not the app).
  2. Select the Link Profile button.
  3. Select the Oconomowoc Public Library and log in.